[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and a high opinion of his talents. The continent of North America, from Boston to Charleston, is a great volume, every page of which presents his eulogium.' "The object of Washington, in concentrating the forces in Westchester County, having failed by reason of the great accessions to the army of Sir Henry Clin-ton in New York, plans were formed for a southern expedition to crush Cornwallis; and the scene of gayety, at and around the old Odell homestead, termi-nated on the 19th of August, when the encampment was broken up, and Westchester County, from White Plains to Peekskill was alive with the tramp of troops, the gleam of arms in the summer sun and the lumb-ering of artillery and baggage-wagons along its roads. And the brilliant French army left the green hills of Westchester county, which had witnessed its brief and joyous sojourn." The portion of Greenburgh, however, most densely populated is that lying along the Old Post road from New York to Albany, and between the Hudson and the valley of the Nepperhan. The successive villages directly on the Hudson River, moving northward from the southern line, are Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Irving-